Michel De Montaigne; Charles Cotton [translator]; W. Carew Hazlitt [editor] — Essays of Montaigne

New York, Edwin C. Hill, 1910. Cloth. A smart translated edition of the essays of Michel de Montaigne, limited to one thousand and fifty copies. Nine volumes of a ten volume set, lacking volume one. Limited to ten hundred and fifty copies, of which this is number three hundred and five. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece in colour and in black-and white, a title vignette, and three plates. Collated complete. The essays of Michel de Montaigne, one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with intellectual insight. The Essays, which are contained in three books and one hundred and seven chapters of varying length, exercised an important influence on both French and English literature, in thought and style. Translated by Charles Cotton, an English poet and writer, best known for translating the work of Michel de Montaigne from French. Edited by William Carew Hazlitt, an English lawyer, bibliographer, editor and writer. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. The odd mark to the board with light fading to the spines. Minor loss to the odd spine label. Front hinge starting but firm to volumes four and ten. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot. Some of the text block remains unopened to volume eight. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .